DDW Highlights: 10 March 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. Our news round-up this week focuses on start-ups, the innovative fledgling companies that are coming through and sparking new life into various areas of drug discovery. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on , and
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Where are the global epicentres of drug discovery innovation?
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Where are the global epicentres of drug discovery innovation?”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: and In the first article, I take a snapshot of the US biotech market and some of the ongoing research coming out of the US. In the second, DDW editors take a look at some key global activity taking place around the world for drug discovery and life sciences start-ups.
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DDW Highlights: 3 March 2024
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. It’s been a mixed bag of news for gene therapies this week, ranging from huge successes in treating sight impairment, cystic fibrosis and hearing loss, to the quick sale of a previously successful gene therapy developer. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on , and
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DDW Highlights: 24 February 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. Following the news of from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this week we focus on some positive drug discovery news from North America, including FDA priority review for a number of innovative therapeutics and a new US centre for rare disease research. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on , and
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Nano Insights: Unveiling the Role of mRNA Analytics in cGMP Manufacturing with Lonza and beyond
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
In this podcast we speak to experts from Lonza and Oxford Nanopore about their collaboration to bring direct mRNA sequencing (including N1-Methyl-pseudouridine) to a regulated environment and establish the new gold standard in sequencing technology. We discuss how nanopore sequencing will be used to perform unbiased identity testing while enabling the simultaneous analyses of multiple critical quality attributes such as integrity (mRNA length and poly-A tail length) and capping.
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DDW Highlights: 17 February 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. Love is in their air this Valentine’s Day as this week’s news round-up celebrates the importance of collaboration in life sciences, whether that’s in the sharing of data, technology, or expertise. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on , and
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The continued evidence of AI’s drug discovery value
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “The continued evidence of AI’s drug discovery value”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “” and “” Absci is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) drug creation company with goals of bringing better biologics to patients more quickly. In the first article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Sean McClain, the Founder and CEO of Absci about how generative AI is being used within drug discovery and the company’s work in the antibodies sector....
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DDW Highlights: 10 February 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. Following , the news round-up this week focuses on new approaches to the treatment of cancer, including radiopharmaceuticals, programmable cell depletion and preventative vaccines. You can listen here, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on or
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DDW Highlights: 27 January 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. In the same week that Phesi revealed that breast cancer is the most studied disease for the fourth year in a row, we have seen a number of breakthroughs in the treatment of solid tumours, both in the early preclinical and later clinical stages of research. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on , and
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DDW Highlights: 20 January 2025
The Drug Discovery World Podcast
The latest episode of the is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. This week we have seen a number of positive announcements related to the early clinical and preclinical development of immunotherapies, including an islet cell therapy for diabetes, an antibody-drug conjugate and a CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma, and a peptide-drug conjugate and a vaccine for head and neck cancers. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast...
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The publication of DDW’s latest eBook on immunotherapy has coincided with some interesting developments in this therapy area, particularly monoclonal antibodies, including two new regulatory approvals.
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